Free Press Launches Anti-AT&T/BellSouth Campaign

[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR:John Eggerton]
Free Press is launching a "Stop the Merger Now" e-mail campaign to try and block the AT&T, BellSouth merger. The $67 billion deal was announced over the weekend, with some activist groups working Sunday to express their opposition and gear up for battle. "The merger resurrects the Ma Bell monopoly that was busted up in 1984," says Free Press in the e-mail announcing the campaign. "But it's far worse today. These companies no longer just control telephone calls. They want to become gatekeepers to all digital media -- television, telephone and Internet -- at prices that many Americans can't afford. The merger is now in the hands of the FCC, FTC and Congress. They'll rubber-stamp the deal unless the public speaks up."
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